Reply #68: How much abortion is economic? [View All]

[jmowreader]

(Cringing at possibly the worst sentence I have ever written...)

If you're in healthcare limbo--the economic middle ground between qualifying for Medicare and being able to afford health insurance--finding out you're pregnant would have to be the worst thing imaginable. You can't afford prenatal care. You can't afford to deliver the child, and you certainly can't afford postnatal care for either you or the child.

This means you have two choices--one of those "crisis pregnancy" services, which are really baby mills for rich women who want babies but can't seem to find Christian Dior maternity wear, and abortion. And the crisis pregnancy route isn't open to you if you aren't white, because rich women aren't going to pay $50,000 for a nonwhite baby.

There are solutions to this problem, but they're going to take money: universal healthcare, education; and the elimination of "Republican morals": contraception and the elimination of pharmacists who refuse to dispense it.

It will also require the removal of politicians who need the abortion rate to be higher so they have something to rally their troops around. Yeah, George, I'm talking about you.